Wage Increases & Student Benefits Part of Draft Labor Agreement with School Supervisors & Administrators

By SÍLE MOLONEY
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the Office of Labor Relations (OLR) Commissioner Renee Campion announced on Saturday, Oct. 21, that the City of New York has reached a tentative five-plus-year contract agreement with the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators (CSA). They said the agreement will cover approximately 6,400 municipal employees, bringing the total workforce under contract, once ratified, to approximately 88 percent. 

UPDATE Hochul, MTA Announce Restoration of Metro North Rail Service after Mudslide in Westchester County

By SÍLE MOLONEY
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and the MTA announced on Sunday, Oct. 22, that the MTA Metro-North Railroad will operate on a near-normal weekday schedule on Monday, Oct. 23, following a mudslide that occurred in Scarborough on Saturday, as reported, which prevented trains from operating between Tarrytown and Croton-Harmon. To reduce the potential for congestion-related delays, the governor said the railroad is adjusting schedules and canceling four of the 158 trains the railroad operates on the line daily, and during peak hours, trains that operate in the reverse-peak direction will operate express between Tarrytown and Croton-Harmon.

Six Bronx-based Members of Crew Charged with Over 200 Commercial Burglaries

By SÍLE MOLONEY
New York Attorney General Letitia James and NYPD Police Commissioner Edward A. Caban announced on Aug. 4 the convictions of six Bronx-based members of a crew responsible for over 200 burglaries of car dealerships, cellular phone stores, and ATM businesses located in the Lower Hudson Valley, New York City, and on Long Island.

The Head of the “Addams Family” Aims to Scare this Halloween……..

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The “Addams Family” is in town but who is scarier? New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday, Oct. 20, “Halloween at Gracie Mansion 2023,” a two-day celebration that organizers say will transform the outdoor grounds of the mayor’s historic residence into a “haunted” Halloween-themed experience for a group of young New Yorkers. Bronx families are giving the mayor a run for his money however, as evidenced by some of these photos taken in the lead-up to the year’s scariest night…